![]() ![]() ![]() The unnumbered but crown stamped magazine base shows that it's a military replacement mag for any Luger, not just an Artillery model. The original Artillery rear toggle link would not have had a sight. Following WW1 the barrel was replaced with a short barrel and required that the rear toggle be replaced so that it has a rear sight. The barrel would have been 8" in length and the rear sight would have been mounted on the barrel. The Luger began as an Artillery model made by DWM in 1917. I'm sure someone else will chime in with more info. The rebarreling probably prevents the pistol from having much collector value, but it's a nice looking Luger and likely worth $1K-2K with the magazines. That might have some decent value, I don't know the magazines that well from WWII. One of the magazines is an unnumbered commercial magazine and the other is a later (1930s/40s) aluminum bottom mag from a Mauser Luger with a serial of 8663u. Someone will be along to correct me if I'm wrong, but it appears that the gun has been rebarreled at some point, the "Crown N" symbol is that of a commercial gun. So it's the 10,889th Luger built by DWM in 1917 for the German military. They would number the guns to 9999 without a suffix and then start with a suffix of "a" for the next 10,000, "b" for the next 10,000, etc. The full serial number of the gun is "889a" (that's what the "a" is for). The receiver and upper part of the pistol (a P.08 Luger) look pretty good - and all visible numbers appear to be matching. Thanks for your inquiry and welcome to the forum. Most things seem to match up with what I would expect, but a few things don't.ġ) The barrel doesn't have a serial number, but it does have what looks like a stamp of a crown with the letter N below it?Ģ) Under the serial number at the front of the gun, there appears to be a stamped "a", I'm not sure what that means.ģ) If you look at the numbers next to the sight, it reads 00 instead of anything related to the serial number.Ĥ) the wood based clip does not have any serial number.ĥ) there's an additional aluminum clip with some interesting stamping and a separate serial number reading 8663.Īny and all information would be greatly appreciated. I've taken the recommended photos from the sticky thread. I've attached some photos and am hoping that this community can help give me some more information on the gun that I can pass along to him. ![]() Based on my research so far on this forum, I believe it is an army issue. It was passed down to him from his uncle many years ago. ![]() He recently asked me to see what type of information I could find about what I believe is a 1917 DWM Luger. My father in law was recently diagnosed with cancer and has been going through a lot of old things and is starting to pass them down. ![]()
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